Winter Weather, Brown
- When
- December 23, 5:00 AM CST to 10:30 AM CST
- Where
- Brown forecast zone
- Injuries
- 0 direct, 10 indirect
- Reported by
- Newspaper
- Coordinates
- 44.474, -87.993 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Winter Weather in Wisconsin, December 23, 2008
Snow from a winter weather system caused roads throughout the county to become quite slippery. Drivers had difficulty controlling their vehicles on the slippery roads, causing many of them to end up in ditches.
Where it happened
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- Heat and drought
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- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 10
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS GRB wrote it up.
Snow from a winter weather system caused roads throughout the county to become quite slippery. Drivers had difficulty controlling their vehicles on the slippery roads, causing many of them to end up in ditches.
An accident involving two vehicles prompted a 14-car, chain reaction pileup on U.S. Highway 41 near County Highway B in Suamico at 8:45 AM CST. Even more vehicles, including several gasoline tanker trucks, were involved but avoided collisions. Ten people were hurt in the crash, with injuries ranging from broken bones to complaints of soreness. The Brown County Sheriff's Department closed southbound U.S. Highway 41 at the Oconto County line as a result of the crash and the road remained closed until around 11 AM CST.
The 4.4 inches of snow that fell as this system passed through Green Bay contributed to a total of 45.6 inches for the month. The total for the month made December 2008 the snowiest December on record in Green Bay, breaking the previous record of 36.4 inches that was set in 1887.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 winter weather. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Winter Weather
- Snow, sleet or freezing rain below warning levels that still caused disruption, damage or casualties.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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More
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Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 147148.